Waisbren warns of impending calamity in US slate financing

21 March, 2008
| By Ben Waisbren

In a prescient speech more than a month ago in Berlin, financier Ben Waisbren talked of impending calamity for the US wave of slate financing - banks won't touch such mega-deals again until there is more transparency and a better alignment of investor and studio interests.

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